Don’t Freak Out, El Paso, This Planetary Alignment Will Grace the Night Sky

Do y'all remember at the beginning of this month how many of us were freaked out by some "strange lights" we noticed in the sky?

It was just two bright dots in the sky that didn't seem like the were moving at all. I won't lie, I fell victim to the whole craze thinking they were just regular lights; I thought it was the aliens coming for us!

I must have stared at that night sky for about 20 minutes waiting for those "lights" to move- and they never did!

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Well, apparently I wasn't the only one who thought the same thing because soon, FitFam El Paso was also sharing others' images and videos of the night sky with those mysterious lights that just didn't move in the night sky!

Well, it wasn't long after I took that blurry photo that we all learned that they weren't lights from an alien spaceship, instead they were actually planets! That's right, lots of us were freaked out over Jupiter and Venus on top of each other!

Which was kind of a relief, I won't lie.

Well, let's not freak out this time, fellow El Pasoans, because on March 28, we'll not only see two planets, but five planets in the Texas sky!

That's right, just after sunset, Jupiter and Venus will be joined by Mercury, Uranus and Mars and will be visible in the night sky! This time, however, the planets won't look like they're stacked on top of each other, they'll appear in an arc shape.

To find out where you can find dark skies in Texas, check this out. And, this time, we'll know that it's not aliens!